{"id":73117,"date":"2016-06-21T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=73117"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:39:51","slug":"nhai-to-set-aside-rs-58-crore-for-plan-to-reduce-damage-to-karnala-bird-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-to-set-aside-rs-58-crore-for-plan-to-reduce-damage-to-karnala-bird-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI to set aside Rs 58 crore for plan to reduce damage to Karnala Bird Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is setting aside about Rs 58 crore for a plan to mitigate the impact of a road project on the Karnala Bird Sanctuary (KBS).<\/p>\n<p>The government is widening a section of the Mumbai-Goa highway, 1.5 km of which passes through the sanctuary. The sanctuary has a moist, mixed deciduous forest and falls under the Thane wildlife division of West Mumbai Wildlife Circle. It also forms part of the Western Ghat bio-geographic zone. <\/p>\n<p>As per the recommendation of the Wildlife Institute of India, NHAI will build four passages or wildlife in the 1.5 km sanctuary stretch. It will also construct seven box culverts. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the state government had endorsed the proposal for widening the highway within the sanctuary, saying it could help reduce vehicular emissions by smoothening traffic flow. <\/p>\n<p>NHAI&#8217;s plan also includes other wildlife management measures like retaining wall, fencing, signages and watch towers, besides provision of water for wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is setting aside about Rs 58 crore for a plan to mitigate the impact of a road project on the Karnala Bird Sanctuary (KBS). The government is widening a section of the Mumbai-Goa highway, 1.5 km of which passes through the sanctuary. The sanctuary has a moist, mixed deciduous forest and falls under the Thane wildlife division of West Mumbai Wildlife Circle. It also forms part of the Western Ghat bio-geographic zone. As per the recommendation of the Wildlife Institute of India, NHAI will build four passages or wildlife in the 1.5 km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}